Dan Kaufman
@dankaufman70.bsky.social
Author of THE FALL OF WISCONSIN. Contributing Writer: New York Times Magazine. Also: @newyorker.com. Music: Barbez, John & Dan. Email: dankaufman36@gmail.com. Signal: Dankaufman.31.
Very cool to be quoted in the @newyorker.com on data centers, thank you @dankaufman70.bsky.social for letting me rant about brownfields and metonymy. 🔮
Dan Kaufman@dankaufman70.bsky.social · 3d agoI have a new piece in @newyorker.com about the Wisconsin governor's race and the growing movement against A.I. data centers. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their insights with me and to the stellar editorial staff at the magazine. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?
As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
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I have a new piece in @newyorker.com about the Wisconsin governor's race and the growing movement against A.I. data centers. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their insights with me and to the stellar editorial staff at the magazine. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?
As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
newyorker.com
With the Wisconsin governor’s race heating up now seems like a particularly good moment to pick up a copy of THE FALL OF WISCONSIN (@wwnorton.com) and brush up on the state’s fascinating, intense, and vibrant political history that is resonating so fiercely today.
My @newyorker.com dispatch on the Stop the Steal movement in Wisconsin from a few years ago, which appears to be relevant again. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?
Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.
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I first learned about Chris Taylor in Dan Kaufman’s excellent book “The Fall of Wisconsin” which I reviewed for LARB in 2018. Glad to see her and the WI Dems make this comeback. lareviewofbooks.org/article/past...
Alex Burness@burness.bsky.social · 5mo agoWisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout. Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...
Chris Taylor, who won a landslide victory in last night's Wisconsin State Supreme Court election, was a key protagonist in THE FALL OF WISCONSIN. Then a state legislator, I was struck by Chris's openness, candor, and determination to expose ALEC's influence on Wisconsin's politics.
The historic background for Trump's attacks on and demands of Spain's current government in Spain is the US Right's longtime love affair with Franco's fascism's, despite or due to his murderous brutality, a fan club spearheaded by William F. Buckley. More here: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
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Inside the emergency of the Federalist Union Network (or FUN), which is filling in gaps in public sector union organizing and strategizing that have accumulated over decades. Plus, how influx of ICE workers is changing federal unions. From @dankaufman70.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers
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Print will always rule, My latest piece, about the Trump Administration's war on federal workers and the growing resistance to those attacks, in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
Best part of this, by the great @dankaufman70.bsky.social, transcends its specific, and also crucial, subject matter: how timorous institutionalist in the anti-Trump coalition get challenged by young people (here, a caucus called "FUN"!) itching for a fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers
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Regreso, en excelente compañía, a las páginas de @lamarea.com en el dossier de #lamarea110 sobre obreros de ultraderecha. Hablo con @dankaufman70.bsky.social, experto en la historia del mundo sindical de EEUU. www.lamarea.com/2026/01/28/l...
¿Y por qué, hijo, quieres ser un fascista? | lamarea.com
El último dossier de ‘La Marea’ está dedicado a los obreros de ultraderecha. ¿Quiénes son? ¿Cómo entender y frenar su ascenso?
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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"In his second term, President Trump has cut more than 300,000 federal employees and stripped more than a million workers of their collective-bargaining rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers
nytimes.com
I have a new piece in The New York Times Magazine about the Trump Administration's war on federal unions and a new group of labor activists who are organizing to fight back. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their time and insights with me. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers
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Highly recommend this piece by @dankaufman70.bsky.social. It speaks to both Spain's past and the US' present. Required reading for my (mostly American) students of comparative Spanish politics.
The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 9mo ago“In Spain, the effort to revive Franco’s reputation has been accompanied by ostentatious philosemitism…. This blend of philosemitism and antisemitism has also become a feature of the Trump administration.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social
Never a better time than NOW for Wisconsinites (and everybody else) to read The Fall of Wisconsin—to understand how we’ve landed where we are *and* for solid, inspiring reminders in the early chapters of how it once was and could be again. 🙏🏻 to @dankaufman70.bsky.social for this brilliant book.
W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · last yr.Dan Kaufman's THE FALL OF WISCONSIN is a deeply reported account of how the state was turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Read Kaufman's latest on tomorrow's Wisconsin Supreme Court election. wwnorton.com/books/the-fa... www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Con los intentos de la extrema derecha en EEUU, España y Latinoamérica de lavarle la cara y la reputación al dictador fascista Francisco Franco, esta reseña en @nybooks.com vuelve a subrayar la brutalidad, intolerancia y el antisemitismo de su dictadura. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
“In Spain, the effort to revive Franco’s reputation has been accompanied by ostentatious philosemitism…. This blend of philosemitism and antisemitism has also become a feature of the Trump administration.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
“Franco’s regime…was far more hospitable to fascist refugees than it ever was to Jewish ones. Despite this history, or perhaps because of it, Franco’s reputation continues to grow on the American far right.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
You have to register to read this for free, but it's worth it; a detailed rundown on that idol of MAGA, General Francisco Franco, and his devotion to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and his acolytes' stated desire for mass prole deaths. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
Excellent essay on Franco’s fascist Spain, which many on the right today are looking to for inspiration www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
Ah, the beauty of print...My latest piece, a wide-ranging essay about a remarkable book by the historian Paul Preston, in the new issue of @nybooks.com. . . .
I have an essay in @nybooks.com about a compelling new book by Paul Preston, a masterful British historian of 20th- century Spain. Deepest thanks to the remarkable editorial staff at the Review for all their help. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
nybooks.com
With the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, and the widespread anxiety over #ZohranMamdani's candidacy, it's worth noting Milwaukee was governed remarkably well for forty years by pragmatic and visionary Socialist mayors. #sewersocialism. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/o...
Opinion | The City Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Would Have Loved to Live In (Published 2019)
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This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil
Reposting this @newyorker.com piece I wrote in light of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Reconciliation at My Lai
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Today is election day in Wisconsin. Here's my @newyorker.com piece on the the race for an open #WisconsinSupremeCourt seat, which is by far the most expensive judicial election in American history and a proxy battle over Trump and Musk's agenda. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?
Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda.
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“‘80% of our canvassing interactions are about Musk,’ Matt Mareno, the chair of the Waukesha County Democratic Party, told me. The county is heavily Republican, but Mareno said that many ppl have expressed frustration that Musk is … not accountable to anyone.’” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?
Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda.
newyorker.com